General Biography: Or, Lives, Critical and Historical, of the Most Eminent Persons of All Ages, Countries, Conditions, and Professions, Arranged According to Alphabetical Order, 第 10 卷G. G. and J. Robinson, 1815 |
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... brought on him a prosecution for libel from the Attorney - Gene- ral , which , after impending many months over his head , terminated in a trial and conviction in February 1799. His sentence was an im- prisonment for two years , at a ...
... brought on him a prosecution for libel from the Attorney - Gene- ral , which , after impending many months over his head , terminated in a trial and conviction in February 1799. His sentence was an im- prisonment for two years , at a ...
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... brought to a very flourishing condition . In the year 842 he became successor to the abbot Rudhelmus ; and it is generally believed that he was for some time expelled by the monks , because he appeared to them to sacrifice the interest ...
... brought to a very flourishing condition . In the year 842 he became successor to the abbot Rudhelmus ; and it is generally believed that he was for some time expelled by the monks , because he appeared to them to sacrifice the interest ...
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... brought him into difficulties , which he was not able to overcome . In 1653 he published at Oxford , in 8vo . a " Grammar of the English Tongue , written in Latin , " for the use of foreigners ; and to this he prefixed a " Trea- tise on ...
... brought him into difficulties , which he was not able to overcome . In 1653 he published at Oxford , in 8vo . a " Grammar of the English Tongue , written in Latin , " for the use of foreigners ; and to this he prefixed a " Trea- tise on ...
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... brought to one of its meetings , and gave a proof of what had been done , much to the satisfaction of all present . The same year , at the request of Sir Robert Moray , Dr. Wallis wrote his " Cuno - cunæus , or Shipwrights ' Circular ...
... brought to one of its meetings , and gave a proof of what had been done , much to the satisfaction of all present . The same year , at the request of Sir Robert Moray , Dr. Wallis wrote his " Cuno - cunæus , or Shipwrights ' Circular ...
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... brought about , by which the British cabinet obtained universal applause . Among the domestic transactions may be men- tioned the minister's opposition to a proposed repeal of the Test - act , although he had long been in connection ...
... brought about , by which the British cabinet obtained universal applause . Among the domestic transactions may be men- tioned the minister's opposition to a proposed repeal of the Test - act , although he had long been in connection ...
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第 64 頁 - Put not your trust in princes, nor in the sons of men, for in them there is no salvation."*** He was soon able, however, to collect his courage; and he prepared himself to suffer the fatal sentence.
第 33 頁 - His abilities gave him a haughty confidence, which he disdained to conceal or mollify ; and his impatience of opposition disposed him to treat his adversaries with such contemptuous superiority as made his readers commonly his enemies, and excited against the advocate the wishes of some who favoured the cause. He seems to have adopted the Roman emperor's determination, " oderint dum metuant ; " he used no allurements of gentle language, but wished to compel rather than persuade.
第 64 頁 - Whitlocke,** with his usual candor, "never any man acted such a part, on such a theatre, with more wisdom, constancy, and eloquence, with greater reason, judgment, and temper, and with a better grace in all his words and actions, than did this great and excellent person; and he moved the hearts of all his auditors, some few excepted, to remorse and pity.
第 77 頁 - Grown all to all, from no one vice exempt; And most contemptible, to shun contempt; His passion still to covet gen'ral praise, His life, to forfeit it a thousand ways; A constant bounty which no friend has made; An angel tongue which no man can persuade; A fool, with more of wit than half mankind...
第 31 頁 - The first volume of his chief work was published, in 1738, under the title of the Divine Legation of Moses demonstrated on the Principles of a Religious Deist, from the Omission of the Doctrine of a Future State of Rewards and Punishments in the Jewish Dispensation.
第 148 頁 - Had I but served God as diligently as I have served the king, He would not have given me over in my grey hairs.
第 148 頁 - O, father abbot, An old man, broken with the storms of state, Is come to lay his weary bones among ye ; Give him a little earth for charity...
第 98 頁 - Thus this brook has conveyed his ashes into Avon, Avon into Severn, Severn into the narrow seas, they into the main ocean; and thus the ashes of Wickliffe are the emblem of his doctrine, which now is dispersed all the world over.
第 265 頁 - BRYANT, JACOB. A new system ; or, An analysis of ancient mythology: wherein an attempt is made to divest tradition of fable ; and to reduce the truth to its original purity.
第 65 頁 - Come, neighbours, let us kneel down ! Let us give thanks to God ! He has given me all my eight children : let the house go ; I am rich enough...